Government has accepted NTPC’s request to surrender the Kudanali-Luburi coal block located at Odisha allotted to it jointly with Jammu & Kashmir State Power Development Corporation Ltd (JKSPDC) in July 2013.
Indian energy giant Adani has urged the Australian government to give its controversial coal mine project “a fair go” and indicated that the opposition party would not derail the proposed billion dollar project if it comes to power.
With the detection of the first body inside the 320-feet-deep illegal rat-hole coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district, the families of the 15 workers trapped inside the quarry are prepared for the worst.
A group of social activists on Sunday released two volumes of a citizens’ report urging the Supreme Court that coal mining in Meghalaya be stopped completely and other forms of energy, which are climate-friendly but need investment, be promoted.
Production and dispatch remained largely unaffected at all the 65 mines of Bharat Coking Coal (BCCL), Eastern Coalfields (ECL), SAIL and Tata Steel on the first day of the two-day nationwide general strike sponsored by central
Operations to rescue the trapped 15 miners in the flooded coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district witnessed a new lease of life after the two high powered pumps started dewatering the main shaft on Friday.
The National Green Tribunal on January 4 imposed a fine of whopping Rs 100 crore on the Meghalaya government for its failure to curb illegal coal mining in the state.
Ongoing efforts to reach victims of a mining disaster in northeastern India have exposed what campaigners say is poor enforcement against such illegal mines, where undocumented workers risk injury or death.
The public furore over 15 labourers trapped inside a rat-hole mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district since December 13 has sharpened focus on illegal coal mining in the state despite a ban clamped by the National Green
Three days since 13 miners were trapped in a rat-hole coal mine in the East Jaintia Hills, feared dead by now, efforts to trace them have been fruitless so far.
